Advancing Quantitative Fire and Gas Detection and Suppression Systems Analysis

摘要

Fire and Gas detection and suppression systems have long formed an important part of the Loss Prevention toolkit for plants that process highly hazardous chemicals, both flammable and toxic. While every effort is made to prevent loss of containment of flammable and toxic chemicals, history has shown us that not only do these events occur, but those that are not prepared for them suffer major business-wrecking losses from which they may never recover. Trends in Loss Prevention clearly show a move toward more and more quantitative methods. In general, this is a valuable trend because high risk situations cannot be simply dismissed as not credible due to the presence of safeguards that are qualitatively deemed appropriate. Furthermore, quantitative methods are helping to 'right size' risk reduction measures such as engineered safeguards, applying more resources to higher risk situations where they can provide the most benefit.